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Jake Thacker

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
390 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Introducing: Scams, Money, & Murder

And then the next day, bankruptcy filing to then a month later or even into January of 2024, where people really started to get the landscape of how serious this was and that there was no money, that it wasn't hidden. It wasn't mismanaged to the point where they had siphoned it off into all these other things and we just had to go to these other things. It was up in smoke. It just evaporated. And

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Introducing: Scams, Money, & Murder

And then the next day, bankruptcy filing to then a month later or even into January of 2024, where people really started to get the landscape of how serious this was and that there was no money, that it wasn't hidden. It wasn't mismanaged to the point where they had siphoned it off into all these other things and we just had to go to these other things. It was up in smoke. It just evaporated. And

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Introducing: Scams, Money, & Murder

That was not something anyone else thought of either that, okay, platform can collapse. Okay, great. That can happen. But then $10 billion worth of assets can just disappear as well. Where did it go? Who did it go to? How did it happen? Why are these people going to cough it up? And how do we find it? It was very challenging for me because again, the community that I

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Introducing: Scams, Money, & Murder

That was not something anyone else thought of either that, okay, platform can collapse. Okay, great. That can happen. But then $10 billion worth of assets can just disappear as well. Where did it go? Who did it go to? How did it happen? Why are these people going to cough it up? And how do we find it? It was very challenging for me because again, the community that I

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Introducing: Scams, Money, & Murder

That was not something anyone else thought of either that, okay, platform can collapse. Okay, great. That can happen. But then $10 billion worth of assets can just disappear as well. Where did it go? Who did it go to? How did it happen? Why are these people going to cough it up? And how do we find it? It was very challenging for me because again, the community that I

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Introducing: Scams, Money, & Murder

normally messaged in, they didn't have a ton of insight. And so I tried my best to try and go find resources. There are some people also that have been interviewed over the course of all of this that I had reached out to and gotten their two cents on and that kind of thing. But there were a lot of people that were left on their own without questions, without any resources.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Introducing: Scams, Money, & Murder

normally messaged in, they didn't have a ton of insight. And so I tried my best to try and go find resources. There are some people also that have been interviewed over the course of all of this that I had reached out to and gotten their two cents on and that kind of thing. But there were a lot of people that were left on their own without questions, without any resources.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Introducing: Scams, Money, & Murder

normally messaged in, they didn't have a ton of insight. And so I tried my best to try and go find resources. There are some people also that have been interviewed over the course of all of this that I had reached out to and gotten their two cents on and that kind of thing. But there were a lot of people that were left on their own without questions, without any resources.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Introducing: Scams, Money, & Murder

And maybe the few people that they did know that had used the platform didn't have any other information either. They had the same questions with the same lack of answers. And so you could have had 10,000 people texting in one group and it would have all been the same. It would have been a lot of frustration more than it would have been proactive.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Introducing: Scams, Money, & Murder

And maybe the few people that they did know that had used the platform didn't have any other information either. They had the same questions with the same lack of answers. And so you could have had 10,000 people texting in one group and it would have all been the same. It would have been a lot of frustration more than it would have been proactive.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Introducing: Scams, Money, & Murder

And maybe the few people that they did know that had used the platform didn't have any other information either. They had the same questions with the same lack of answers. And so you could have had 10,000 people texting in one group and it would have all been the same. It would have been a lot of frustration more than it would have been proactive.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Introducing: Scams, Money, & Murder

I saw that.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Introducing: Scams, Money, & Murder

I saw that.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Introducing: Scams, Money, & Murder

I saw that.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Introducing: Scams, Money, & Murder

I didn't see it come out in real time. I saw a post about it. I think it was on Reddit, actually. Somebody had posted it there because I don't have Twitter. And so I wasn't trolling the Twitter feeds or anything like that. But I did see that. That was my biggest red flag that things were wrong. Because again, Binance was someone that knew what they were doing.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Introducing: Scams, Money, & Murder

I didn't see it come out in real time. I saw a post about it. I think it was on Reddit, actually. Somebody had posted it there because I don't have Twitter. And so I wasn't trolling the Twitter feeds or anything like that. But I did see that. That was my biggest red flag that things were wrong. Because again, Binance was someone that knew what they were doing.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Introducing: Scams, Money, & Murder

I didn't see it come out in real time. I saw a post about it. I think it was on Reddit, actually. Somebody had posted it there because I don't have Twitter. And so I wasn't trolling the Twitter feeds or anything like that. But I did see that. That was my biggest red flag that things were wrong. Because again, Binance was someone that knew what they were doing.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Introducing: Scams, Money, & Murder

how to do it regardless of any nefarious activities that they were involved in or not they had been around they had played the game they knew how to manage upturns downturns in the market so on and so forth and so i respected that it was a huge sign that if they are not confident in an investment of that size and magnitude there's something very wrong.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Introducing: Scams, Money, & Murder

how to do it regardless of any nefarious activities that they were involved in or not they had been around they had played the game they knew how to manage upturns downturns in the market so on and so forth and so i respected that it was a huge sign that if they are not confident in an investment of that size and magnitude there's something very wrong.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Introducing: Scams, Money, & Murder

how to do it regardless of any nefarious activities that they were involved in or not they had been around they had played the game they knew how to manage upturns downturns in the market so on and so forth and so i respected that it was a huge sign that if they are not confident in an investment of that size and magnitude there's something very wrong.